the beat with ari melber starts right now. welcome to the beat with ari melber. we have a great show for you tonight wednesday, december 27th. we look at jack smith s big coup case against donald trump which faces a key appeal in january. how will smith draw his past experience? that s where we begin tonight. he s a tough, but low-profile prosecutor with a very long record. he led difficult and victorious cases including the prosecution of new york police officer justin volpe who tortured lima, smith was a younger federal prosecutor then and went on to develop something of an expertise in the hard cases that other lawyers sometimes duck. the kind of cases that go at the powerful in government or police, senators, heads of state. he developed experience for the pressures of those specific kind of cases a something of a reputation as the kind of prosecutor you actually pick up and call with a tough case like that. smith did stints in federal and local prosecutor s
Were tracking the fallout in that devastating ruling that found year of fraud by trump and his companies. The trump org reeling as a new hearing held today. The rule came out yesterday. It was big news. For all the pending cases against trump, this one has Swift Financial consequences with fraud and financial tricks and a Fantasy World is what the judge said they were operating in, not the real world. Lies to banks based on and patently false fatally flawed claims as well as other judgmental terms you see there by the judge. Now, experts and Trump Lawyers are already scouring this ruling to make sense of what it means when you cancel business licenses, when you dissolve parts of the company. And we have more clues on what that means today, because trumps lawyers were in court today asking the judge if the order means they have to sell assets, including trump tower, would this oust the sons from their own homes . The answers could come within a detailed followup in a month. Trump tower